Mumford and Sons - Roll Away Your Stone (live)

What this video is

Released in June 2010 at the peak of Mumford & Sons' breakthrough moment, 'Roll Away Your Stone' arrived as British neo-folk was entering mainstream consciousness. The band, rooted in the London folk circuit, represented a broader transatlantic revival of acoustic instrumentation, literary lyricism, and spiritual inquiry in popular music. The song's Macbeth reference and themes of darkness, grace, and…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of the 2009–2011 British neo-folk revival, this live video encapsulates the genre's core visual and sonic values: acoustic instrumentation, communal performance energy, literary gravitas, and an anti-gloss production ethic. As one of the Sigh No More campaign's key singles, it…

The director

Nicolas Jack Davies is a Grammy-nominated, triple-MTV VMA-nominated director known for cinematic and emotionally raw documentary and music video work. He has directed videos and films for Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Elbow, PJ Harvey, Laura Marling, and White…